Berlin Wall relic gets a 'second life' on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers

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Berlin Wall relic gets a 'second life' on US-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers - Lemmy.world

As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean. “May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”

Of course Mexico wants open borders, they have drugs to run.
Wouldn’t want anyone competing with the CIA’s operation, right? Or stop being xenophobic while we are at it.

It is CIAs operation. Cartels own Mexico, CIA owns the Cartels.

Close the border, stop the flow, and criple the CIA.

Call me crazy, but I think there might be an easier way to control the CIA.
Or even reducing the profitability of smuggling drugs by legalizing some of the most popular ones or something. But I guess then they would also lose the Jim Crow 2.0 and would need to come up with something else.
And you think the cartels will just disappear just because you’ve given them concessions?

If legal alternatives undercut their main income stream, yes, they’ll disappear. Or rather, they’ll fall apart as their resources become scarce and the ‘middle managers’ being cut out of the remaining money start fighting the higher ups and each other.

Ending alcohol prohibition didn’t strengthen the bootleggers. It put them out of business as Budweiser ate their lunch.

What makes you think they won’t just sell their product legally?
Businesses operating legally? Sounds like mission accomplished to me.
Former mafias killing people legally? Sounds like hell
legal businesses dont engage in killing people, they just send lawyers after them to make them wish they were dead.
If a legal business sells suicide pills to suicidal people they’re indirectly killing them